Bohemia

When members of the Owings Mills softball team stepped on the field against Bohemia Manor yesterday, they had accomplished something that no other team in the school's history had experienced: an appearance in the state championship game.Once the game began, Owings Mills had another new experience. For the first time this season, the top-seeded Golden Eagles were on the receiving end of a lopsided game.Third-seeded Bohemia Manor (18-3) from Cecil County pounded out 17 hits en route to a 13-2 rout in the Class 1A final at Randazzo Park.

Howard softball coach Chuck Rice said he thought he would never coach another player who would pitch a perfect game. He was happy to be wrong. Kensey O'Neill struck out 11 in retiring every batter she faced Wednesday as the host Lions beat visiting River Hill, 13-0. Kensey worked five innings because of the mercy rule and had one of her team's five extra-base hits, a double. No. 9 Reservoir 15, Wilde Lake 0: Rachel Brown struck out six for the visiting Gators (9-0, 6-0 Howard County)

Candy Credito scored 12 points and Cindy Jenkins added 10 as Fallston rolled past Bohemia Manor, 47-17, in a Class 1A, Region III semifinal last night at Fallston.The Cougars (17-4), state finalists last year, will host the winner of yesterday's Joppatowne-Kent game for the regional championship tomorrow at 1 p.m.Last night, sixth-seeded Bohemia Manor, which had upset fifth-seeded Perryville in the first round, led only once, 2-0.The top-seeded Cougars then ran up a 10-2 lead as Credito scored the team's first eight points and Jenkins added a layup.

The No. 15 River Hill Hawks had been pecking away at No. 13 Eastern Tech for six innings in the Class 2A state baseball final at Ripken Stadium on Saturday, but aside from one run they had little to show for it. Then, with one out in the bottom of the seventh and still down a run, the Hawks took flight. They used a walk, two errors and two hits, the final one coming from junior center fielder Christian Laidley, who drove in starting pitcher Jeff Crosswhite with the winning run in the 3-2 victory.

Bohemia Manor coach Larry Garber didn't know much about Joppatowne going into last night's Class 1A North Region final but what he did know became evident by the second quarter.Hutton realized the Mariners outmatched his Eagles in size and strength as seconded-seed Joppatowne built an 11-point halftime lead on its way to a 44-40 victory over top-seeded Bohemia Manor of Cecil County.The win gives Joppatowne (19-7) a return trip to the state semifinals at UMBC."We definitely could not take them lightly even if they were a lot smaller," said Joppatowne coach Lynette Shelley.

NEW YORK -- If there are truly horses for courses in racing, then the horse is Dixie Flag and the course is Aqueduct.For the fifth straight time, the 3-year-old daughter of Dixieland Band won a race at Aqueduct, and she picked a good one yesterday: the $150,000 Top Flight Handicap. She shot one mile on a fast track in 1 minute, 35 1/5 seconds, outrunning a clutch of all-star rivals.It was the second straight score for the filly in two months at Aqueduct and her fifth there in a year. In that time, she also has run at Gulfstream Park, Belmont Park and Saratoga without winning.

Bohemia Manor running back Shane Hines led the Eagles to an 18-13 victory last night at Havre de Grace in a Class 1A state quarterfinal football game. The senior ran for 140 yards on 28 carries and scored all three Eagles touchdowns, including a 78-yard scamper in the fourth quarter to seal the win. "Shane is one of those guys that never stops," said Bohemia Manor coach Todd Shives. "His feet and legs never stop until he has four guys piled on top of him. That kind of effort got him that touchdown run [in the second half]

THE TRUE MEANING of the word Bohemia is, according to American Heritage College dictionary, a historical region and former kingdom of present-day Czech Republic established between the first and fifth centuries. Most people today know its colloquial meaning, which is a community of people with artistic or literary tastes with unconventional manners and mores. To the people of Cecil County, though, the word Bohemia has a more local resonance because it commonly is known as the land that Dutch emigre Augustine Herrman established and named in 1661.

With 1:16 remaining in the first half of last night's Class 1A state semifinal between the sixth-ranked Glenelg girls basketball team and Bohemia Manor, Glenelg students sitting behind the Eagles' basket began to chant. "It's all O-VER," yelled the students. "It's all O-VER." They were being kind. Glenelg's 61-27 victory at UMBC was sealed midway through the first quarter. The Gladiators (18-7) broke a 2-2 game with a 13-0 run and led 21-5 going into the second quarter. "I thought the competition would be a lot more than what it was, being that we're in the final four," said Glenelg sophomore guard Chrissy Starcher, who had a team-high 14 points, all in the first half.

To most fans at the Class 1A state girls basketball semifinals, the "Big D" would be Dunbar, which has won the past two 2A championships, but to the No. 4 Poets, the "Big D" is defense. The Poets' swarming full-court press overwhelmed previously unbeaten Bohemia Manor last night and propelled Dunbar to a 58-34 victory in their 1A semifinal at UMBC's RAC Arena. The Eagles, from Chesapeake City in Cecil County, simply could not contend with a pesky Poets defense that hounded them into traveling violations and ball-handling mistakes.

In its beginning, mercury glass was considered a knockoff of the real silver furnishing the houses of the well-to-do, says Diane Lytwyn, author of Pictorial Guide to Silvered Mercury Glass (Collector Books, $24.95). Now, the well-to-do are collecting it. According to Lytwyn, mercury glass was first produced in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and came to popularity in the 1850s. Contrary to its name, elemental mercury was not used to produce tableware. In fact, "silvered glass," an alternative title for mercury glass, better describes how it was produced.

6 Goals the North Harford boys lacrosse team scored in the second half in rallying for an 8-7 win over Fallston. 7 Errors that the Joppatowne baseball team had against Bohemia Manor. But the Mariners still pulled out a 13-10 win. 20 Hits the Harford Tech baseball team had against Perryville - including seven doubles - in an 11-9 victory.

On June 19, 2004, JAMES OLIVER FIELDS, 46, of Baltimore. Services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, June 26, 2004 at Christ Unity Center, Inc., 1150 Singerly Road, Elkton, MD. The family will be receiving family and friends starting at 10 a.m. Burial will be in Bohemia Manor Cemetery, Chesapeake City, MD. Arrangements handled by Lisa Scott Funeral Home, P.A.www.dmvobits.com/scott

WASHINGTON - A group of high school students from Cecil County has spent the past two months mucking through streams, hunting for insects and mining the Web for environmental facts. On Tuesday, the six students from Bohemia Manor High School in Chesapeake City put on their best clothes, took a train to Washington and spoke to a congressional subcommittee about ways to save the Chesapeake Bay. The students were participating in "Chesapeake Bay in Your Community: A Restoration Plan," a new project started by Rep. Wayne T. Gilchrest, an Eastern Shore Republican.

Bohemia Manor story needed newer photo In regard to the article "Finding Bohemia on the Chesapeake" (Oct. 26): I grew up spending the summers in Hack's Point on the Bohemia River. This is the "small stream" that separated Herman's estate, but you failed to mention its name. Also, I notice that the picture you show was taken in 1954. If this is in fact the "house that stands today" belonging to the Bayard family, why such an old photo? Also if it is, you did not mention the remains of, what we knew as, the original manor house; which lays just to the southeast of today's manor house.

THE TRUE MEANING of the word Bohemia is, according to American Heritage College dictionary, a historical region and former kingdom of present-day Czech Republic established between the first and fifth centuries. Most people today know its colloquial meaning, which is a community of people with artistic or literary tastes with unconventional manners and mores. To the people of Cecil County, though, the word Bohemia has a more local resonance because it commonly is known as the land that Dutch emigre Augustine Herrman established and named in 1661.

Brandon Chapman capped a 12-play, 96-yard drive with a 30-yard scoring pass to Robert England, then ran for a two-point conversion to lift Montgomery County's Seneca Valley to a come-from-behind 14-7 Class 3A state title win over Frederick County's Linganore yesterday at Ravens Stadium. Chapman, Jon Frazier and Quatrell Adedeji all knocked down passes in the end zone during the game's final 15 seconds as the Screaming Eagles (10-2) won their state-leading 12th crown in as many berths. Seneca Valley had taken a 6-0 first-period lead on Justin Warren's 29th touchdown of the year.

There's an axiom in sports that says you can't teach experience. You also can't teach composure. Glenelg found itself trailing Smithsburg 25-17 in the second quarter. The Gladiators composed themselves, using a pressure defense that forced numerous turnovers en route to a 74-50 win in the Class 1A South region championship. The Gladiators (17-7) will play Bohemia Manor, a 50-30 winner over Perryville in the Class 1A semifinals, at 7 p.m. Friday at UMBC. Eariel Gohlson led all scorers with 24 for Smithsburg (19-6)

Brandon Chapman capped a 12-play, 96-yard drive with a 30-yard scoring pass to Robert England, then ran for a two-point conversion to lift Montgomery County's Seneca Valley to a come-from-behind 14-7 Class 3A state title win over Frederick County's Linganore yesterday at Ravens Stadium. Chapman, Jon Frazier and Quatrell Adedeji all knocked down passes in the end zone during the game's final 15 seconds as the Screaming Eagles (10-2) won their state-leading 12th crown in as many berths. Seneca Valley had taken a 6-0 first-period lead on Justin Warren's 29th touchdown of the year.

Bohemia Manor running back Shane Hines led the Eagles to an 18-13 victory last night at Havre de Grace in a Class 1A state quarterfinal football game. The senior ran for 140 yards on 28 carries and scored all three Eagles touchdowns, including a 78-yard scamper in the fourth quarter to seal the win. "Shane is one of those guys that never stops," said Bohemia Manor coach Todd Shives. "His feet and legs never stop until he has four guys piled on top of him. That kind of effort got him that touchdown run [in the second half]